One of my favorite parts of Los Angeles or at least one I frequent often the East area of Hollywood…read morealso known as EaHo/ East Hollywood encompasses a tone of sub cities and area such as Thai Town, Little Armenia, Melorse-Hill and others, bordering Silver Lake and Los Feliz this little big area is home to some amazing food, inns, housing, shopping and city living. The LA metro Redline stops Hollywood/Western and Vermont /Sunset being huge staples for city transportation as well as local LADOT dash and several services. Bordering the 101 Fwy East Hollywood is very accessible to long standing residents as well as visitors, tourist and LA goers alike. Barksdale Park off Hollywood Blvd, Madison Avenue Park near the Hollywood hotel off Lexington and Ararat Park right off the 101 near Lemon Grove and Hobart are a few of the greener sides of this city. The food is limitless with personal favorites like Cruzer Pizza off Hollywood Blvd, soon to tries like Lolo Wine Bar and all the essentials such as Target, Marshall's, Ralph's and Norms (coming soon) on Western. I have a few friends who are longtime residents and a few more new to the area and definitely consider moving to this side of town though I very much enjoy where I am now with a short drive, but usually a not so long commute over on the bight Orange, Red and Underground metro system. Parking is usually an adventure with some restrictions on certain streets, though depending on your destination you've got options. The hospitals and health services in the area including Kaiser Permanente across from Los Angeles' Children Hospital and a skip to Hollywood Presbyterian are top of the line. You can usually catch me at the Del Taco (where I had my first beyond tacos in 2019), Akbar a great local all-inclusive lgbt bar off Sunset, AHF Western for health services or my friend's places. Have my eye on checking out DeSano's Pizza, Marouch (Lebanese eats), the good good Kitchen + Bakeshop and returning to some favorite like Gegen, Green Leaves and My Vegan Gold in the area. Definitely recommend a few motels, hotels and inn's in the area such as the Hollywood Downtowner Inn (more than decent), Hotel Covell (pricey but amazing) and I've heard good things about PodShare Los Feliz. We do have a huge though mostly structured homeless encampment off Wiltin Place and Hollywood Blvd in the area, but I've seen small strides for improvement and definitely hope to be apart of the solution. Give EaHo some love - local farmers Market weekly off Hollywood /Western I. front of US Bank #SupportLocal #SupportSmall #SupportLA

The Allview Public Stairs weren't on Yelp before this review! Kind of surprising yet not…read moresurprising. These stairs are a hidden public walking path in the Hollywood Dell area of the Hollywood Hills. They provide stunning views across Hollywood and Central LA toward Downtown. While some of the lots in the local area may be under construction, marring the view at times, the generally charming gardens and architecture of the surrounding Brush Canyon and Beachwood areas makes for a nice walk. Nearby are the Hollyridge and Foothill public stairs, so you can collect them all. If you're going down the hill, you can stop on Franklin for a drink or bite to eat, and if you're climbing, consider making the Beachwood Cafe or Hollywood Reservoir your destination. Happy stepping!

Great Statue. I…read morewould read what it says but that would be a spoiler for your visit. I ran into this guy who called himself George Warrior who said he comes here every 3 Saturday looking for this other guy named Jason Makiaris. Something about a picture of him unmasked and a pencil? Anyways - I try to visit just to see what happens if he finds That Jason guy. You cannot climb on the statue. I mean you can, but you shouldn't. What a great statue!

This is a surfer flamingo he likes to surf and hang out and drink and have a great time. He's my…read moreKanaka so of course we had take a few photos of women throwing up on here for odyssey go check him out. He's hanging out in Beverly Hills waiting for a ride to the beach

Great building. My cousin, twice removed, was the champion of the building before the building got…read moretorn down. You probably won't remember the building. I will always remember trying to catch him and then enjoying tasty cakes after both inside and outside of the building. You're probably too young for tasty cakes. We always sent mail to each other and then would read it in the garageOf the building. You're probably too young for mail. Do they still have that? Anyways - the building was fun and was always a great color because how many colors are there even? Thank you

This place is pretty good. I put all the gingers I know here and they seem to really like it…read more Parking can be a pain though and there is never the food I want. They don't have extra glasses at the moment either so I can barely see Mad Men

Hey, it's James Dean , and here's a public art display of him. It's in black-and-white. It's on…read moreMelrose Avenue and there are many more murals in the area.

I'm glad that a handful of people also reviewed this Los Angeles intersection that is both…read moreenigmatic and vapid so I feel less weird for writing about it. Los Angeles as a whole has so much to see and analyze, and this intersection is yet another thing to pick apart. As a kid, I would be sitting in the car while my parents drove across the intersection of Pico and Sepulveda many times. I didn't think anything of it. The only thing that came to mind was that Anawalt's Lumber was on this corner, and I'm glad to report that it still is, and that a Norm's coffee shop, the one at which I've eaten the most, was a few blocks east of here. Sadly, that Norm's has closed. Upon learning of the comical song featured by radio personality Doctor Demento, going anywhere near this intersection then brought on uproarious laughter. Whoever penned this song was almost a genius in that they made a silk purse out of a sow's ear. This intersection has recently gotten a lot of life injected into it. While Anawalt's Lumber is still there and the other two corners have small strip malls, the southwest corner now has a newer office building. Growing up, one almost forgets that Exposition Boulevard runs almost parallel to Pico and, at Pico and Sepulveda, it's but a short block south. This proved to be important because that dormant railroad track in the middle of once sleepy Exposition, with its small stucco ranch homes, is now the path that the Metro Expo line travels on from Downtown L.A. to Santa Monica. It goes over Sepulveda using a flyover, the station is elevated and provides good views of the West Side, and there is yet another massive cookie cutter "transit oriented development" type apartment complex next to it. Similar to the ones near the reborn parts of Culver City on this same line, one can only wonder who lives in these complexes and what they do. I don't want to think that most of the residents have a geeky high paying tech job and have an Uber Eats person bring them their food. Also, being just one block south of Pico and Sepulveda, the Metro station has turned this area into a hub. There is now a large Metro parking garage nearby. Metro (L.A.) buses and those belonging to other systems, such as Culver City, now ply Sepulveda and end up at the base of the UCLA campus. On the Culver City system, which has a stop at this quirky corner, one can travel all the way to and from LAX for $1. Even though the song was just good fun when released, the area around Pico and Sepulveda mostly continued to be taken for granted. It just sort of sat there between Westwood, Century City, and Santa Monica. While tidy, the housing stock consisted of ordinary stucco ranch homes like the ones seen all over the West Side and dingbat and Jetsonian apartment complexes built from the post-war era through the seventies. However, this more "vanilla" area around this intersection has gone from being taken for granted to being coveted. A large percentage of the houses have been extensively updated, with some featuring a "pop top," and, if not extensively updated, they look freshened up. The prices of any nearby homes are astronomical and the prices of rentals are also very high. This intersection is too close to many key areas to have been ignored much longer ... and I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner. After all, Sepulveda is probably Los Angeles's most important north-south thoroughfare, paralleling the San Diego Freeway from the "way cool" South Bay all the way to the top end of the San Fernando Valley where the city ends. The song "Pico and Sepulveda" manages to be irritating, yet, because it's so goofy and absurd, it easily earns people's forgiveness. Its refrain will undoubtedly be stuck in your head for quite a while. I can only think of one other song that does the same via its refrain ("la da dee - la da da"), and that would be Crystal Waters's 1991 dance hit "Gypsy Woman," but that one had and has fleeting landmark status. The intersection of Pico and Sepulveda easily gets 4 stars for being close to key areas of Los Angeles, for being in a fairly nice area with interesting stores and options, for being close enough to enjoy the breezes of the Pacific, and for making people laugh, or, at the very least, chuckle.

Local flavor intersection and one I frequent when passing through West LA or Sawtelle in all modes…read moreof transit. Its near the connection for the the Expo E (Gold) line at Expo & Sepulveda with connection to the Culver CityBus, LA Metro Transit Busses and LADOT. On foot you'll have pretty wide open sidewalk space, access to scooter rentals (such as Lime), spot some delivery robots and be near two strip malls/plazas (donuts/coffee, breakfast burritos, haircuts, cell phone stores, etcs - more active in the day time) as well as newer apartment, built up office spaces and a Anawalt Lumber Company location. Sepulveda Blvd & Pico Blvd is at its most active during the rush hour stretch or at least from 4PM to 630PM - a most LA-ers know Sepulveda runs along the 405 and is an alternative to hoping on it. Sepulveda & Pico has being renovated and revamped over the last few years and really come up - pass through to enjoy some scenic city views. Q Tips: Near Best Buy, Michael's (arts & crafts) and Marshalls (off Sawtelle Blvd). Wine House + Smart & Final (Cotner Avenue/Pico). Lots of local food & sip spots (El Super Taco, Big Tommys, Sorry Not Sorry bar and more). Plus some essentials like USPS, Best Western Inn (for traveling or staycation).

This art installation, just a stone's throw from the Japanese American National Museum,…read morememorializes issei Toyo Miyatake's contraband camera, which he constructed to capture camp life at Manzanar during World War II. After Executive Order 9066 was issued, Miyatake smuggled a camera lens into the internment camp and began taking candid photos of his surroundings -- from the barbed wire, watch towers, and tar paper-covered barracks to the faces of internees making the best of the situation. His photos provide a rare perspective that the American government did its best to stifle at the time, producing several propaganda films showing Japanese-Americans happy to be imprisoned. His work is on par with Anne Frank's diary. The statue of Miyatake's camera stands in front of a former Buddhist temple and from time to time projections of his work appear from inside one of the building's windows. It's quite poignant. Not far from it is also the Go For Broke Memorial, another must-visit if you come by the museum for some Japanese American history.